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Y ou should never lend your tools to Pistoa. They will be returned broken like the smiles of the unsuspecting, and not because he is a...

After my recent experience of those who would call me "colleague", I will keep this short and sweet. In "Zoos for the Dead...

It may seem wicked to some, considering the scale of suffering the US mid-west defaults have caused across the globe, but I feel I must make...

The chances are probably pretty slim that any Australian reading this blog will also have tickets to the upcoming Ashes cricket series begin...

Kaiser Mélange I know of the Cheetah who lives on the limbs of the tree behind the building. Your kisses can trap him. The eyes are the secr...

Spanish Tinge She said that she had always been lonely and I took her at her word. I kept telling her that with ice water in my veins, I wa...

These days my life is largely the story of two mountain towns. The older, higher, larger and somewhat poorer of the two is the administrativ...

To the long-suffering everywhere I apologise. To the lovers of good blogging and good poetry everywhere I apologise, but this is entirely an...

Australians are as durable and thus as prone to cliche as any people on earth, but suddenly it feels like we are set adrift in the old wry l...

holland1945 is a downloadable journal publishing contemporary and non-mainstream poetry in a variety of disciplines, essays and interview...

Being a poet, sometimes the odds seem long on our struggling wee art form surviving. Magazines are folding everywhere & book publishing ...

Magic Hat Youkali said she would trade me a new hat for one of my drawings. Her cousin owned a shop near a bar I liked so we had some drink...

After that fairytale end to the test in Chennai between England and India, when the Mumbai hero Sachin Tendulkar knocked up a century and th...

lapse into gabrielle is weeping – they’re smoking his hems now. a spoon tangos spaghetti and brown shirts gather in the wardrobe lens clic...

The inheritance My colleague took great delight in hearing that one of the students we taught together, a student who appalled her by contin...

I will be away down in Sydney for a couple of days reveling with my good friend "Geordie", but will put out this call now for subm...

Recently, at the gentle behest of my most staunch and dew-eyed drinking partner, Jeff "Geordie" Graham, I began work on a collecti...

There have been a fair few changes to the world since I last posted. Peace tables (laid out in all their Amin-ostentation) in The Congo, wor...

It appears some genius at a certain US publisher has decided to tinker with their on-line shipping costs, so that anyone trying to purchase ...

In the early 1970's, following the lead of that moral avatar Richard Nixon, most of the developed economies of the "free" worl...